CODY McDonald aims to give Coventry City’s fans something to shout about tomorrow night when the Sky Blues return to the Ricoh Arena.

More than 2,000 travelled to Yeovil on Saturday to see the striker open his League One account with a superb diving header – but he returned home frustrated that it was only worth a point and is determined that they won’t let it slip against Sheffield United in their first home match of the season.

McDonald – denied what he insisted was a certain penalty – fired over after creating an injury-time chance for himself and admitted: “I should definitely have stuck that one away and I had a couple of other chances as well so I could have finished with a hat-trick.

“The fans were great today and I was really gutted that I couldn’t finish it off to give them something to cheer about, get the three points and send them home happy.

“That’s very disappointing but, as they say, as long as you’re getting into those positions the goals will come and I’ll be looking to do that against Sheffield.

“It’s a huge game for us because you’ve got two massive clubs going against each other in the third tier so we have to make sure that we perform on our own patch.

“If we can beat them we’ll have four points from two games and things will be looking good because they always say that winning your home games and drawing away sets you up for a good season.

“This isn’t an easy place to come and but we are disappointed to only come away with a point.

“After we scored we sat back a little bit and let them get back in it, but in the second half we controlled the game and should have gone on to win it.”

McDonald looked sharp all game, several times winning balls that Yeovil’s centre-halves seemed to have covered, and he was convinced that he should have been awarded a penalty after robbing Byron Webster five minutes into the second half.

“I like those ones that bounce on the edge of the box and the defender hesitates,” he explained, “because it gives somebody like me the opportunity to sneak in there, put pressure on them and create chances.

“That time I got to the side of him and he slipped and trod on my big toe. There was no other reason for me to go down because I was clear through but when I asked the referee and he said it was just a coming together so you’ve got to accept that. Next time hopefully I’ll get the decision.

“I put another once across the goal as well so it should have been a lot better. But it could have been worse as well and a draw gives us something to build on and go into Tuesday’s game with a bit of confidence.”

Manager Andy Thorn added: “We’ve watched the penalty incident on video and there’s no doubt Cody was fouled, but we won’t make too much of it because it’s a long old season and we’ve got another 45 games to talk about things like that.

“We’re just pleased to get the season underway and we had some terrific support here so I hope that they can see what we are trying to do.”